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Some thoughts from an earlier mtb era seeped into my brain earlier - and I could think of nowhere better to seek answers...
So, for those who know or might remember:
1. Does anyone here remember the “Singletrack Definition” quote from an early STW T-shirt??? I just missed out on getting the T, but remember the definition as summing up the essence of mtb.
2. Early pilgrimages to Coed y Brenin we’re defined by cake and the Red Bull & Karrimor trails - favourites for me where the “Adams Family” sections... did they get wiped from the hillside, or are they still there for sneaky off-piste???
(Hardly been back to CyB since the layouts changed...)
These thoughts were brought to you courtesy of some recent sweet, fast, flowy singletrack...
Feel free to offer enlightenment - or indulge in more mtb-nostalgia 🙂
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I love the the dictionary text. It’s perfect
P20 - THANKS...!!!
Still perfect 🙂
Bula hats for slalom markers?
Isn't it?
Wasn't it?
Still perfect indeed!
The Addams Family section is still there and has grown too! Had a good mooch at the old signs that were dug out for the 2016 CYB Enduro and it's surprising what is still used from the original trails.
The Addams family section was my mates favourite. Still smile thinking about us riding it together.
Happy days. Who else here went to the CyB Fat Tyre Festivals? I recall one of them coinciding with the first issue of Singletrack.
I would happily buy another one of those t-shirts if they were reprinted. I think I still have my original one, it's maybe just a wee bit tight on me. Must have shrunk in the wash.
CyB fat tyre festival was ace (organised by Pat Adams). We went to one but it was never run again after that ☹️
Campsite was somewhere up around where the car park is nowadays I think. Maybe a bit further up the hill. Some hippy types brought along a portable sauna (the magic hat sauna I think it was called). - "yeah guys, you can go in, but you have to get naked"!
Adams Family section has always been there, and remains, are you thinking of Pink Heifer? the route that followed the rain fallline down the hill, and was forever having to be re-built?
The Tee definitely warrants a re-run 😉
Re the original Addams Family sections, I think these sections went with the “Karrimor”... and with “Root of all Evil” and “Snap”, “Crackle” and “Pop”
The Addams Family names have been re-used on the Beast, but the running order and locations are different 🙁
ETA - Pink Heifer came later 😉
Who else here went to the CyB Fat Tyre Festivals?
I still have the box from a specially produced puncture repair kit you got in your goody bag when you signed on.
Some of the old trail sections are still there. You'd never guess they were built as part of an MTB trail now. Look a lot more natural and now more fun to ride than when they were maintained.
We went with the girls to the Fat Tyre Festivals. Stayed in some log cabins that had a dry ski slope.Still got the repair kit.
I cant belive I dragged Abigale, aged 4, round the Red Bull trail with a trailgator
First time I rode there was in 1987